Chapter 199: Lu Chenzhou, Wheres Your Pride? (1/2)

When Cheng Xi’s father started crying, it shocked everyone else. He had always been the stoic and silent member of the family, always cool, calm, and collected. Cheng Xi had expected her mother to cry, but not her father.

Even Cheng Xi’s mother was a little dazed. She looked at her husband and said, “Gosh, your father actually started crying before me.”

He grumbled back, “You’re going to cry sooner or later!”

And Cheng Xi’s mother did; as she watched the boarding line grow shorter and shorter, she started sniffling. Before long, tears were streaming down her face even as her husband continued to silently cry beside her. Cheng Xi herself was teary-eyed, and Cheng Yang was about to pull out his hair in frustration from watching the three of them cry at each other. “Why do you all have to cry so much? It’s not like she’s never going to come back! What’s more, even if she doesn’t return, you guys can still visit her, right?”

His mother indignantly yelled, “If you can’t cry, then shut your mouth! You’re a heartless brother.”

Cheng Yang was left without a response.

Cheng Xi couldn’t help but smile at her family’s antics. She turned around and hugged everybody again, including Cheng Yang. “Alright, take care, everyone. I’ll be back soon enough. Mom, dad, remember to take care of yourselves. Brother, listen to our parents. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to meet your wife by the time I return.”

Her words scared Cheng Yang so much that he hurriedly said, “Then you’d better not come back that quickly. Sayonara!”

Their mother and father’s palms immediately landed on the back of his head, finally dissipating the sorrowful atmosphere.

After Cheng Xi boarded the plane, she kept looking out the window at the familiar city and the familiar sky. All of these familiar scenes would soon only be seen in her memories.

At that moment, she deeply desired to be the female lead of some romance movie, who would turn around and see the person she loved standing at the corner, sending her off.

But Lu Chenzhou wouldn’t do something like that. If he were to show up, he wouldn’t hide in a corner, and if he didn’t show up, then that was that.

She still hoped that he’d betray her expectations.

As the airplane accelerated down the tarmac and soared into the sky, Cheng Xi’s parents stood inside the airport, looking at it soar into the sky. Cheng Xi’s mother couldn’t help herself from bursting out into tears again. “That little brat—she’s really flown out of the nest now.”

Cheng Yang’s scalp went numb as he looked at his mother crying. “Now that I’m the only one left, I’ll be your favorite child!”

But his mother just scolded him again. “The favorite? What’s the point of keeping you around? You still haven’t gotten married and you already make me angry every day. If you left right now, I’d even set off fireworks in celebration!”

Cheng Yang was dumbfounded by his mother’s response. “......I’m not an adopted child, am I?”

“Yes, you are. The only thing you’re good for now is for helping your sister take care of her apartment.” Before her tears dried up, she had already started to nag him again. “If it stays uninhabited for too long, it’ll start getting moldy. In the future, you should go over to her apartment regularly, and remember to clean it for her once every two days. Don’t bring anyone strange over, take care of everything that she didn’t take with her, don’t needlessly touch her books—they’re precious to her, and if the weather’s good outside, remember to air the blankets……”

I really am an adopted child, aren’t I?!

Amidst his mother’s nagging, Cheng Yang sent his parents home. The smoke trails of the now faraway plane dissipated into the atmosphere as their car drove further and further away.

Cheng Xi’s departure was like a pebble being thrown into a pond. In the beginning, it had caused many disruptive ripples, but as the pebble slowly sunk to the bottom, not a trace of it was left on the surface.

Everyone’s days passed as usual. After Cheng Yang beat Lu Chenzhou up, he thought that he would be immediately dropped from the engineering project he was working on with Donglai. But unexpectedly, someone from Donglai actually contacted him with positive news. “Mr. Cheng, we’ve inspected your work at Hainan, and we’re happy to settle the accounts now.”

Of course, Cheng Yang would go over to settle the accounts; wouldn’t he be crazy not to be properly reimbursed for his work?